Improved towel-drier



tnted mes SELIM ELIJAH GROUT, OF WEST-CONCORD, VERMONT,

Letters Patent No. 99,668, lated February 8, 1870.

IMPROVE!) TOWEL-DRIER.

The Schedule referred to n these Letters Patent. and making part of the same.v

To all persons to whom these presents may come Be it known that I, SELIM ELIJAH GRoU'r, of West Concord, of the county of Essex, and State of Ver mont, have invented an Improved Towel-Drier.; and do herebydeclare `the same to be fully described in the following specitication, and represented in the accompanyingdrawings, of which- Figure l denotes a top view, and

Figure 2, a rear elevation of it.

The apparatus is lan improvement with reference to the towel-drier represented' in Letters Patent No. 87,843, dated March 16. 1869, and granted to me.

VAlthough I employ the sectional clamp, formed of two parts hinged together, and also employ, in connection therewith, two series of arms, I apply the i latter and their support-s to the clamp, and construct them in a manner di'erent from what is the case with respect to the two series of levers, as described in my said patent. By my present! improvement I am enabled to, dispense with the supporting-rails and hooks employed to hold the levers, and also, in the place of levers, to make use. oi' simple arms, hinged respectively to ears projecting from the two parts of the clamp-rino. v

From between each pair of such ears, I project a T-piece, to constitute a'support for the next adjacent pair of arms, the middle `'l"piece being formed in two parts, hinged together.

L A are the two halves or parts of the clamp, which, when. in use, Vare to embrace and be secured to the upright funnel of a stove, the two parts A A' be-4 ing held thereto by a clamp-screw, B, and a nut, C, Y

arranged therewith in manner as represented.

The hinge oi the t-Wo portions A A is shown at I), as formedlin the middle T-piecc E, which I construct in separate parts,` each projecting from one of the halves of the clamp.

The series of ears is shownY at F, and the T-pieccs at E. rlhe ears extend radially from the clamp, and are perforated to rcceivethe arms, shown at G, which hook into the ears, or are hinged to them.

When projected outward, as shown in iig. 1, each pair of arms rests on one ofthe T-pieces, and in notches made therein, and when not in use the arms may be folded inward, diametrically across the clamp.

This mode of making the drier is much preferable to that described in my said patent, and takes up less room. then thedrier is applied to a stove-funnel,A

its arms radiate from it, and serve to hold towels, or other articles which maybe placed in them for the purpose of being either heated or dried bythe h'cat radiated from the stove.

I claim the improved towel-drier, as made with the ears F, and T-pieces E, and the arms G, arranged together, and with the clamp A A', in manner as specified and represented.

, SELIM ELIJAI'I GROUT.

Witnesses:

' D.' Gr. MAY,

C. K.' Kurse. 

